A C25K “Masonic” /321 symbol 🤔🤣🏃‍♂️?

[Dalmorangie]

Hi All

Having be a C25K-er for about a month now (and proudly so!) I keep wondering if we should have, for the whole 🏃‍♂️ community, a type of quick hand signal that we could use to show all those other 🏃‍♂️ you see out there, who seem to be “proper” ones (all swift of foot and piston legged!) that we are brave, plucky C25K-ers??

It could be a mix of a visual type Masonic “handshake” and for those of you of a certain age, a Ted Rogers 321 thing?! So straight away, as well as their little wave, they’d see us as C25K-ers and break their usually serious, intense faces with an encouraging smile??

🏃‍♂️😐👀🤘✌️🖐🤟 😊🏃‍♂️

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

Not sure about hand signals, I am never too sure where about 99% of runners do their training for the liking of 5K parkruns and other 5k, 10k or longer distances.

When I look at the "running club" of where the runners on 5K parkruns come from or train, I can count on one hand the combination of several parkruns people from the NHS Couch to 5K 'training school.' The Oldfellow is the only person on the Keswick Parkrun, I am the only person who is on my first parkrun in Dunfermline, I did not see one runner from C25K on the Bushy Park Parkrun results page, there are more than a 1000 people who run in that one, OK, I may have missed a few, if I get to know any people at the parkrun I run in, I will ask them, where did you do your training to run 5K runs?

[Dalmorangie Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

That’s interesting Al, Parkruns are my primary objective once I’ve graduated plus then picking some good country and coastal routes.

[runwithdog Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

i wanted to add nhsc25k to my strava but it wont have it

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to runwithdog]

Not sure about Strava, but on Android if you go to the app store and type or tap " One You Couch to 5K" you may get it onto your Smartphone.

[Oldgirlruns Graduate]

Nice thought Dalmorangie - but I have enough trouble trying to run, breathe and speak (occasionally), there’s no way I could try and remember a secret hand signal as well!!

[Dalmorangie Graduate in reply to Oldgirlruns]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I know the feeling well!! W5R2 tomorrow morning so looking forward to that 👍

[Jazzyrunner Graduate]

I absolutely love this idea! The only trouble is, people who weren’t C25k-ers would be very confused! 🤣 It would have to be very secret and minimal... could make our right hand into a C as we run, and with our left just hold down our ring finger and little finger, so it’s C2 - then maybe nobody would notice if they weren’t part of the secret club 🤣